Woven fabric



No. s|o,05|. Patent ed Aug. 30, I898.

n. H. HEY.

WOVEN FABRIC.

(Application filed. Mar. 26, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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WOVEN FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,051, dated August30, 1898.

Application filed March 26, 1897. Serial No. 629,309. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. HEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Woven Fabrics, whichimprovement is fully described in the following specification andaccompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a fabric composed of two layers of fillers, onelayer having binding-warps independent of the other layer, the latterbeing bound to the former by four series of warps, as hereinafterdescribed and claimed, said layers of fillers being respectively ofdifferent materials having no intervening floats therebetween and one ofsaid materials having a napped surface.

Figure 1 represents a sectional view of a fabric embodying my invention,the section being on line w 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 2 represents a plan view ofthe fabric shown in Fig. 1.

fabric, the same being shown in various states of its manufacture.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a series of fillers having thewarp-threads B and O interwoven therewith, said threads B and Crespectively passing alternately over and under each successivefiller-thread of the series A, which latter are of cotton-duck or othertightly-woven similar material.

D designates the upper fillers, of wool or other similar material, whichare of equal number to those in the layer A and in the present instancedirectly over the same.

The layers A and D are bound together by the four series of woolen warpsE, F, G, and H in the manner hereinafter described.

The threads of the series E of warps are passed over the upper woolenfillerD' of the" series D, and then descending pass under the cottonfiller A of the series A, and thence upwardly and around the woolenfiller A and then downwardly and around the cotton filler A thenceupwardly over the woolen filler D", and so on, it being noticed that thewoolen warps E after passing over a woolen filler are kept down duringthe next three picks of the woolen fillers. In like manner the threadsof the series of warps F which are adjacent to the woolen warps E passover the woolen filler D which is adjacent to the filler D, and thendescending pass around the cotton filler A thence upwardly around thewoolen filler D", thence downward around the cotton filler A thenupwardly, and so on, as before.

The threads of the series G of warps which are adjacent to the warps Fpass around the woolen filler D which is adjacent to the woolen filler Dthence descending pass around the cotton filler A thence upwardly aroundthe woolen filler D thence down wardly around the cotton filler A,thence upwardly, and so on. The threads of the series H of woolen warpswhich are adjacent to those of the series G pass around the-woolenfiller D which is adjacent to the woolen filler D thence descending passaround the cotton filler A, thence upwardly around the woolen filler Dthence downwardly around the cotton filler A thence upwardly, and so on,it being noticed that the threads of each woolen Warp after passing overan upper filler are kept down during three picks of the woolen fillers,thus exposing a large surface of the woolen fillers, so that the samecan be readily worked up to form a nap. By having the woolenwarp'passing below the lower or cotton fillers, as described, thereareno floats formed of the said warpseither between the two layers or onthe surface of the fabric, thus avoiding loose or projecting threads.-The woolen face is napped in the ordinary way, so as to form a fluffysurface thereon.

I am aware that it is old to construct a fab ric having faces composedof different material formed of separate layers of fillers connected bywarps alternately passing around consecutive fillers. Such, so far as Iam aware, are provided with extra warp-threads passing between thelayers forming floats; but I am not aware that a fabric as hereindescribed and claimed is old, said fabric having a napped woolen and acotton face, each formed of an equal number of layers connected by fourse-= ries of woolen warps, a warp of each series passing around thefourth consecutive filler of each layer, whereby the woolen fillers arefreely exposed, so that the face thereof may be readily napped and noneof said warps forming floats either between or outside of said layers.

ing around the different fillers, and a thread of each of said fourseries passing around the fourth consecutive filler of each layer offillers and all of said warp-threads serving as binders, said fillershaving no floats therebetween.

ROBERT H. HEY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL SPRINGER, J. E. MULLIGAN.

